Jerusalem | John Stoddard's Lectures

Jerusalem. Illustrated and embellished with views of the world's famous places
and people, being the identical discourses delivered during the past
eighteen years under the title of the Stoddard lectures.

Palestine has an area only a little larger than the State of Massachusetts, while Russia occupies one-seventh of the habitable globe; yet in the scales of intellectual and moral value the little pro...

But can we believe that this is the exact locality of Gethsemane? We know, at least, that somewhere in this valley at the base of Olivet, and just across the brook Kedron, was the secluded spot whithe...

We were foolish enough to visit the so-called tomb; and descending by candle-light twenty-five slippery steps, we reached what seemed to have been originally the bottom of a well. Again, therefore, a...

When I first looked upon the distant Plain of Jericho from the mountains east of Jerusalem, it appeared remarkably beautiful, and I could understand why it had once been called the Garden of the Worl...

According to the accounts of those who came here with these princely visitors, the tombs of Abraham, Sarah, Jacob, and Leah are in separate apartments lined with marble and approached through silver g...

What wonder that they mourn? For nineteen dreary centuries their history has been one almost uninterrupted tragedy. Scattered throughout the world, scorned of all nations, they have been forced to suf...

And what a past is theirs! We need not dwell upon the fact that they have given to mankind the Bible; that the sublimest of religious prophecies, and the most eloquent of sacred songs, were written by...